The rules for hoisting the national flag are:
1.) The flag should never be used for any advertising purpose, nor embroidered on cushions or handkerchiefs, printed on paper napkins or boxes, etc.
2.) When the flag is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem, it should be destroyed in a dignified way, by burning.
3.) Never have anything placed on it.
4.) Never have it used used as covering for a ceiling.
5.) Never have the flag be fastened, displayed, used, or stored so that it might be easily torn, soiled, or damaged.
6.) It should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
7.) Never have it be displayed with the union down.
8.) It should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water etc.
9.) When the flag is used to cover a casket, the union should be at the head and over the left shoulder.
10.) The flag should never be dipped to any person/thing.
11.) When flown at half-staff, the flag should be first hoisted to the peak for an instant and then lowered to half-staff position.
12.) When flags of states, cities, etc., are flown on the same halyard, the United States flag should be at the peak.
13.) When flags of two or more nations are displayed, they are to be flown from separate staffs of the same height, and the flag of the United States should be hoisted first and lowered last.
14.) When displayed from a staff projecting from a building, the union [upper inner corner] should be at the peak of the staff.
15.) When it is displayed otherwise than by being flown from a staff, it should be displayed flat, whether indoors or out; or so suspended that its folds fall as freely as though the flag were staffed.
16.) When displayed over a street, it should be suspended vertically with the union to the north in an east and west street, or to the east in a north and south street.
17.) On a platform, it should be above and behind the speaker, with the union uppermost and to the observer's left.
18.) When displayed from a staff in a church or auditorium, the flag should occupy the position of honor and be placed at the speaker's right as he faces the audience.
19.) It should be displayed at every public institution and in or near every polling place on election days, and at schoolhouses during school days.
20.) In a procession the flag is to the right of another flag or, if in a line of other flags, in front of the center of that line.
21.) The flag should not be displayed on a float except from a staff, nor draped over the hood, top, sides, or back of a vehicle.
22.) should not be displayed on days when the weather is inclement.
23.) The flag should be hoisted briskly and lowered ceremoniously.